The sum of some
Earlier today, federal, provincial and territorial justice and public safety ministers finished their annual meeting in Charlottetown. Among the items under discussion, was Quebec’s request that the Harper Tory government…
C4SR
Making it up as they go
In 2009, the Harper Tories had a clear plan to replace the long gun registry with something that could work: We want to return to the better system of having…
Harper Tories release suppressed gun control report: Report leaves more questions than answers
Five days after the Minister of Public Safety tabled the overdue 2010 report of the Commissioner of Firearms, the government finally got around to providing it to the rest of…
Now this is interesting
We suspect that some of our readers will be upset that the UFC has banned gun ads. Others, we suspect, just won’t care.
Harper Tories still suppressing critical firearms reports
Two months ago, we wrote about the Harper Tory government’s penchant for suppressing RCMP reports on the life saving long gun registry. At the time, the House of Commons Public…
Alberta supports Quebec long gun registry
Last week while we were busy doing other things, Alberta Premier Alison Redford visited Quebec. Over the course of the visit, the Premier was asked about her views on the…
On schadenfreude
In October 2006, the NDP had a clear position on dual citizenship: “Narrow-minded members of the government should open their eyes and get a grip on the essence of Canada’s…
Thomas Mulcair: He didn’t choose France for you
Thomas Mulcair is French by choice. It’s not terribly difficult to predict the sort of response that a political attack machine could run with this untimely revelation. We’ve seen it…
Even when they do things in Quebec, the NDP starting point is denial
First answer: This is not our way of doing things so I would be extremely surprised if it came from us – Guy Caron, NDP MP and Quebec caucus chairSecond…
Tories lying about gun registry bill
According to Western Canada’s gun lobby. Maybe that’s why the NFA didn’t get invited to the House of Commons Committee review of the radical bill to repeal the life saving…
Three posts on guns worth reading
Every now and then, we see things which will likely interest our regular readers and, as a bonus, engage and/or enrage our trolls. Here are three that speak of the…
À propos of…
…of nothing at all.
Dear fellow Reformers
OTTAWA January 6, 2011 Dear fellow Reformers, It’s been a long slog but we’ve arrived. The opposition is crippled and the media is cowed. Heck, we’ve turned the appointment of…
Ringing in the new year with a bang
A couple of days before the new year a letter appeared in the Calgary Herald outlining the writer’s concern about the deaths caused by another formerly law abiding gun owner.…
Not just for Arizona anymore
Look out! Santa has a gun! Reports say that neighbourhood Santas were not amused.
#ethicalbananaphone
It must be hard to be Don Cherry these days. It’s not just that Cherry became the foil to the Conservative mob’s campaign to find out how much Peter Mansbridge…
Next stop, tiger blood
Today we learned that the stable Harper majority government has launched yet another round of ads trumpeting the Conservative Party’s unfulfilled commitment to repeal the life saving long gun registry.…
In defence of Peter MacKay (sort of)
See Peter. See Peter become a liability. Run Peter. You can run, Peter. You can not hide.We see that the right wing friends of the Prime Minister have launched their…
When is OK to compare Canadian police to the SS?
In April 2011, a handpicked member of the Harper government’s radical anti-gun control advisory committee, compared Canadian cops to Hitler’s notorious SS. In the midst of an election campaign, such…